Each and every day of the last 37 days since trump started his residency of the White House, we are seeing the true nature of the “policies” in the Bannon/trump agenda. Some examples from this past week follow.
Last week brought us the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference, or NAMBLA (well, they might as well be, as far as ‘family values’ goes.)
Acting President and White Supremacist Steve Bannon, hand-in-hand (briefly) with White House (coughincompetent) Chief of (coughincompetent) Staff Rience Priebus, made a special appearance, during which Bannon casually confirmed that his true agenda is to a) gut First Amendment rights, muzzling the “free press” and protestors; then b) destroy our form of government/turn it into a kakistocracy.
BANNON: “Just like they were dead wrong on the chaos of the campaign and just like they were dead wrong in the chaos of the transition, they are absolutely dead wrong about what’s going on today because we have a team that’s just grinding it through on President Donald Trump promised the American people. And the mainstream media better understand something, all of those promises are going to be implemented…
“… every business leader we’ve had in is saying not just taxes, but it is — it is also the regulation. I think the consistent, if you look at these Cabinet appointees, they were selected for a reason and that is the deconstruction, the way the progressive left runs, is if they can’t get it passed, they’re just gonna put in some sort of regulation in — in an agency.That’s all gonna be deconstructed and I think that that’s why this regulatory thing is so important.” [emphasis mine]
A Daily Kos diary from 2/24 describes Bannon’s treacherous goal as well. A brief excerpt, though you should read the entire post:
“Remember the interview in which Bannon wanted to burn down democracy?
“I’m a Leninist,” Bannon proudly proclaimed. …“Lenin,” he answered, “wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.”
Back to CPAC: Puppet FAKE president trump also gave a “speech” – and I use that term in the very loosest definition, in that he DID at least utter many many words, one after the other, i.e.:
“Great to be back at CPAC. It’s a place I have really — I love this place. I love you people. So thank you very much. First of all, I want to thank Matt Schlapp and his very, very incredible wife and boss, Mercedes, who have been fantastic friends and supporters and so great when I watch them on television defending me; nobody has a chance. So I want to thank Matt and Mercedes.
When Matt called and asked, I said absolutely I’ll be there with you.The real reason I said it, I didn’t want him to go against me, so I said absolutely. And it really is an honor to be here. I wouldn’t miss a chance to talk to my friends. These are my friends. And we’ll see you again next year and the year after that. And I’ll be doing this with CPAC whenever I can, and I’ll make sure that we’re here a lot.
If you remember, my first major speech — sit down, everybody, come on.
You know, the dishonest media, they’ll say he didn’t get a standing ovation. You know why? No, you know why? Because everybody stood and nobody sat. So they’ll say he never got a standing ovation, right?
They are the worst.
So sit down. Donald Trump did not get a standing ovation. They leave out the part they never sat down. They leave that out. So I just want to thank you.”
NO, YOU FUCKING IGNORAMUS, THEY NEVER SAT DOWN BECAUSE YOU NEVER FUCKING TOLD/ASKED THEM TO! IT’S CALLED PROTOCOL, DAMMIT, HAVE SOMEONE EXPLAIN IT TO YOU!
Sorry.
Anyway, that was as much as I could read before my brain threatened to short out. If you’re tougher than I am, you can read the whole thing at the link above.
Kevin Drum of Mother Jones had this to say after trump’s “press briefing” prior to which CNN, the N.Y. Times, and the L.A. Times were shut out in favor of (puke) Breitbart [FAKE] “News” and the Washington Times:
“A few days ago, there was some talk about whether Trump would slow-walk federal disaster relief for the Oroville Dam [California] area. As it turned out, he didn’t, but the possibility was taken seriously for a while.
This is what makes the Trump presidency so unpredictable. No modern president would even think of taking revenge on a state that voted against him by refusing disaster aid. No modern president would dream of evicting news outlets from a press briefing because they had criticized him. No modern president would lie about easily checkable facts on a routine basis. No modern president would loudly cite every positive bit of economic news as a personal triumph. No modern president since Nixon would casually ask the FBI to take its side in an ongoing investigation.
It’s not that modern presidents couldn’t do these things. They just didn’t. And we all came to assume that none of them would.”
Then there’s this series of tweets from the tiny fingers of the childish man-baby, after the DNC selected Tom Perez as its Chairman:
Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
Congratulations to Thomas Perez, who has just been named Chairman of the DNC. I could not be happier for him, or for the Republican Party!
5:02 PM – 25 Feb 2017
Tom Perez
✔ @TomPerez
Call me Tom. And don’t get too happy. @keithellison and I, and Democrats united across the country, will be your worst nightmare.
5:49 PM – 25 Feb 2017
Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump
The race for DNC Chairman was, of course, totally “rigged.” Bernie’s guy, like Bernie himself, never had a chance. Clinton demanded Perez!
6:33 AM – 26 Feb 2017
Seriously, America, FAKE president trump is OUR “worst nightmare.” When are the Republicans going to finally acknowledge that trump is an incompetent puppet with no morals, whose strings are being pulled not by the GOP, but by an anarchist who, with assistance from murderous Russian strongman Putin, will bring THEIR world “crashing down”, too? What President-in-effect Bannon plans won’t just destroy the R’s hated “big government”, it will destroy the United States, and totally fuck up the balance of power in the world.
Democrats alone cannot stop trump. If there are any Republicans with an ounce of patriotism left in their hearts, well, “now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.” And quickly.
This is our Open Thread, you know what to do.
TheZoo 
I have to get my son’s documents from the bank tomorrow so he can apply for a drivers’ permit. We now live in a country where friends have encouraged him to take pictures of them and keep them in his phone in case ICE picks him up for being brown. Every day I wake up and wonder what fresh horror this deranged crowd will visit upon our country.
Keeping fingers crossed for your son. I, too, have many relatives and friends of Hispanic origin, including my SiL (born in Mexico), and our next door neighbors, all but one of whom were born in Argentina (their youngest was born here in Colorado a little over a year ago. She’s what idiots like Sick Rantorum et al. refer to as an Anchor Baby).
Republicans are infuriating. I can’t stand the sight of the bastards anymore.
Well-spoken, Jane.
I can’t begin to count how many times I’ve seen/heard the Orange Shitgibbon tell how he’s going to bring back untold numbers of jobs from US companies that manufacture lots of stuff abroad. What puzzles me is I’ve never seen, heard, or even read about anyone — in the media or elsewhere — ask him when he’s going to bring here the jobs that HIS OWN various out-of-country operations employ ‘over there.’ Why is that?
I did run across this one recently, however, and it’s quite informative — and incriminating. How many Trump products were made overseas? Here’s the complete list.
Thanks for the compliment – as all of us here have experienced, sometimes the right words just flow almost directly from one’s brain to nearly leap onto the page of their own volition.
Good link, I’ll bookmark it.
It’s only just begun. Now he’s talking about spending trillions on defense and slashing the crap out of everything else, except infrastructure, “entitlements” and everything else.
Deconstruction plain and simple means ‘ and end to regulations of every sort’.
Good luck with your salmonella poisoning, hepatitis A, B and or C. And welcome to Nuke City.
I never thought I would ever say this but, George Bush actually says something that make sense.
Jeebus.
Trump just told the Pennsylvania AG that anti-Semitic threats may be false flag operations
Trump adviser suggests Democrats are threatening Jewish centers to make conservatives look bad
‘Welcome to the Trump plantation’: Historically black college vandalized after Betsy DeVos gaffe
Krystallnacht, anyone?
It was pointed out to me that all previous presidents conducted pressers in front of a blue curtain.
Donald’s presser was in front of a gold curtain.
I didn’t notice this because I didn’t watch it.
Does he think he is king now?
Rhetorical question. Don’t answer.
Just Now: Chris Matthews – ‘Tonight you’re going to see Democrats sitting on their hands and Republicans applauding without enthusiasm.’
Is anyone actually watching tonight’s attempt at a speech? I simply can’t, it’ll make me sick. I’ll try to read a transcript tomorrow, but even that’s going to be difficult enough.
I am. He’s reading from teleprompters, so he might stay on message.
I refuse to watch him, period. If there’s anything worth hearing about, I’ll read it in the morning.
Raw Story has the text of the speech, but I haven’t read it yet.
Plus, it’s not morning yet. 😆
He sucks at reading from a teleprompter. He pauses at all the wrong places.
If he cuts off the meth and oxy from the rural whites, they’ll take him out for us.
It’s almost a shame that pot smokers are usually non-violent – if he cracks down on even legal marijuana (which I’ve read he’ll try to do), what an uprising that would be – if we could get off the couch. 🙂
They put the camera on Liz Warren. She was just sitting there shaking her head, looking disgusted.
Kagan looks like she’s about to hurl.
Welp it’s about his tone. Are you fuckin’ kidding me? “VOICE”